Land Surface Temperature (LST) is one of the key inputs for Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere transfer modeling in terrestrial ecosystems. In the frame of BIOSPEC (Linking spectral information at different spatial scales with biophysical parameters of Mediterranean vegetation in the context of global change) and FLUXPEC (Monitoring changes in water and carbon fluxes from remote and proximal sensing in...

This paper surveys the peer-reviewed social science literature in which Landsat data are used to inform public policy in managing natural resources and the environment. The paper differentiates articles in which methodology is developed (for example, developing and testing algorithms or demonstrating how data could be used) and articles in which data are applied for decisionmaking or policy imp...

The new Sentinel-2 Multi Spectral Imager instrument has a set of bands with very similar spectral windows to the main bands of the Landsat Thematic Mapper family of instruments. While these should, in principle, give broadly comparable measurements, any differences are a function not only of the differences in the sensor responses, but also of the spectral characteristics of the target pixels. ...

Landsat remote sensing of the central African humid tropics is confounded by persistent cloud cover and, since 2003, missing data due to the Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM + ) scan line corrector (SLC) malfunction. To quantify these limitations and their effects on contemporary forest cover and change characterization, a comparison was made of multiple Landsat-7 image mosaics gene...

North Carolina’s forest disturbance and timber production assessed using time series Landsat observations Chengquan Huang, Pui-Yu Ling & Zhiliang Zhu To cite this article: Chengquan Huang, Pui-Yu Ling & Zhiliang Zhu (2015): North Carolina’s forest disturbance and timber production assessed using time series Landsat observations, International Journal of Digital Earth, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2015...

a r t i c l e i n f o Geological Survey (USGS) are developing the successor mission to Landsat 7 that is currently known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). NASA is responsible for building and launching the LDCM satellite observatory. USGS is building the ground system and will assume responsibility for satellite operations and for collecting, archiving, and distributing data follow...

Cloud cover and cloud shadow areas on satellite imagery restrict the practical use of remote sensing data. Thus, cloud screening and filling methods are critical for geospatial users. The recently launched Landsat-8 provides coastal/aerosol and cirrus bands to tackle this problem. In this case, clouds can be accurately detected with Landsat-8 data, and the masked cloud areas could be filled in ...

This paper compares and contrasts predictions of forest height in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) plantations based on mediumresolution Landsat ETM+, high-resolution IKONOS satellite imagery and airborne Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data. The relationship between field-measured height and LiDAR height is linear and highly significant (R 0.98) and so LiDAR height measurements were used to...